Recipe#6462

Title: BARM BRACK (TRADITIONAL IRISH BREAD)

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   2 1/2   c            Mixed dry fruit--currants>>>
                        Dark & golden raisins.
   1       c            Boiling black tea
   1       ea           Egg
   1       t            Mixed spice (see note*)
   4       ts           Marmalade
   1       c            (heaping)superfine sugar
   2 1/2   c            Self-rising flour
     Place dried fruit in a bowl, cover with the hot tea
  and let soak overnight.  The next day, add the
  remaining ingreds. and mix well. Preheat oven to 375
  F.  Pour batten into greased 7" square pan and bake in
  the center of oven for 1 1/2 hrs.  Let cool in the pan
  on awire rack. Slice and serve buttered with tea.
  
     NOTE* (Mixed spices:  equal parts of cinnamon,
  clove, nutmeg, allspice, and mace.
  
     1.  In Northern Ireland and in the Republic, BRACK
  is the Celtic word for salt and is used to mean
  "bread".  Barm brack is leavened bread, the word BARM
  meaning yeast.
  
     2.  The term "barmbrack" for an Irish fruit loaf or
  cake does not derive from barm or leaven.  It is a
  corruption of the Irish word "aran breac" (Speckled
  Bread).